There's an old saying in the Persian language: "color your face with a slap." I've heard it multiple times from here and there but I never fully grasped its meaning until very recently. As it has been stated in my previous posts, I have only recently moved to the SoCal region of CA. I have also recently decided to completely change my career path and instead of applying to pursue a PhD in my field, to go into the world of business and become an entrepreneur. While I get there, I am giving myself a period of 3 years to learn as much as I can about the business world of managing my own company, practice my craft of writing, teaching, and consulting, and gain experience as a manager or director in an education setting.
Until I can get a full-time position in managing, I am taking several courses and doing lots of self-study and writing practice while taking on different projects as a freelance writer and editor. In the past one week, I have took on 3 extra clients, which comes to show that I am making progress in this self-made business. But I don't want to discuss how much profit I am making or what my business is like, I want to write about how I have grasped the true meaning of the "color your face with a slap" expression.
{For the purpose of my clients' privacies, I will not go into detail about their identities. Also I have made may exaggerations here to only clarify my philosophy. Please don't take any of these descriptions as "literal".}
Since I came to LA, or even before I came, I keep hearing about how "shallow" and "superficial" most locals in LA are as opposed to the intellectual, hard working people in NY or the hippie techies of Berkeley and San Francisco. However, after a month and a half of living here, I have already changed my mind. I have learned that there is more than meets the eye and that perhaps because this image of LA remains in most people's eyes, many locals pretend like they are superficial and shallow when they come to all these "parties" and gatherings. However, they are not in such high spirits and fake as they seem as they drink the night away. In fact, they only seem that way because they purposefully make it look that way. In fact, before the party, they have just returned from long shifts of labor and trying to make it big in this country & reach their dreams. In order to hide all that fatigue and perhaps disappointment even, they force their skins to glow with excess makeup and as the expression goes, slap their face as much as possible to make it glow red in order to hide just how baggy their eyes are or how much dirt their faces have accumulated throughout the day and they finally arrive at these parties, glamorous as superstars one may only see in movies or television and drink as much as they can to numb the pain from the many slaps and drink and act merry because they know when the party ends, the fairytale ends with it and they have to go back to their pumpkin carriages with old shabby clothes and ordinary life so Cinderella-like.
They do this because they have to stay in the status quo. They have a reputation to uphold. They can't just let go of all their integrity. But what you and I don't understand is that they do this because they believe in themselves. They have faith that this is only temporary. They will keep this up for as long as needed in order to align their lives. But the questions remains, do they ever align their real life with their fairytale life?
Until I can get a full-time position in managing, I am taking several courses and doing lots of self-study and writing practice while taking on different projects as a freelance writer and editor. In the past one week, I have took on 3 extra clients, which comes to show that I am making progress in this self-made business. But I don't want to discuss how much profit I am making or what my business is like, I want to write about how I have grasped the true meaning of the "color your face with a slap" expression.
{For the purpose of my clients' privacies, I will not go into detail about their identities. Also I have made may exaggerations here to only clarify my philosophy. Please don't take any of these descriptions as "literal".}
Since I came to LA, or even before I came, I keep hearing about how "shallow" and "superficial" most locals in LA are as opposed to the intellectual, hard working people in NY or the hippie techies of Berkeley and San Francisco. However, after a month and a half of living here, I have already changed my mind. I have learned that there is more than meets the eye and that perhaps because this image of LA remains in most people's eyes, many locals pretend like they are superficial and shallow when they come to all these "parties" and gatherings. However, they are not in such high spirits and fake as they seem as they drink the night away. In fact, they only seem that way because they purposefully make it look that way. In fact, before the party, they have just returned from long shifts of labor and trying to make it big in this country & reach their dreams. In order to hide all that fatigue and perhaps disappointment even, they force their skins to glow with excess makeup and as the expression goes, slap their face as much as possible to make it glow red in order to hide just how baggy their eyes are or how much dirt their faces have accumulated throughout the day and they finally arrive at these parties, glamorous as superstars one may only see in movies or television and drink as much as they can to numb the pain from the many slaps and drink and act merry because they know when the party ends, the fairytale ends with it and they have to go back to their pumpkin carriages with old shabby clothes and ordinary life so Cinderella-like.
They do this because they have to stay in the status quo. They have a reputation to uphold. They can't just let go of all their integrity. But what you and I don't understand is that they do this because they believe in themselves. They have faith that this is only temporary. They will keep this up for as long as needed in order to align their lives. But the questions remains, do they ever align their real life with their fairytale life?
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